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What is it about SE and "Misshapen"

#21 Mentalist

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 07:03 AM

huh
One of the other forums has a thread about words SE looooves to use...

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 11:34 AM

Dancer;292914 said:

Not at all, I just wanted to get involved

I would have been a hypocrite by asking you to stop whilst poticipating.

The shard jokes are amusing. I'm glad SE brings Archaeological experience into the books on the odd occasion.

Corrected for a new age.

I remember that thread...we exhausted most options I even made up some words to see if someone would contradict me.

Dancer;248107 said:

SE has used the words, 'sidling' and 'myope' more than frequently.

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Posted 24 April 2008 - 11:29 AM

Dolorous Menhir;291192 said:

I'm just repeating another forum member's observation, but in Erikson's world dying civilisations always make a special effort to cover their streets in potsherds before finally coming to an end.

Then Illuyankis:
QUOTE
@DM: It is a bit jarring.

LMFAO, seriously, was a pun intended there? :confused: Cos thats just quality, if i could rep you i would, just on the basis of that one pun. :cool: Kudos are deserved!

I can rep, just realised it there now,

so here you go Illuyankis.

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 10:42 PM

could someone point me in the direction of the thread for words he uses a lot? i need to see susurration on that list!
thanks

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 01:22 AM

Lazar, on 06 June 2010 - 10:42 PM, said:

could someone point me in the direction of the thread for words he uses a lot? i need to see susurration on that list!
thanks

No, you must needs see susurration on the list.

#26 hmqb

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 01:39 AM

I've notice him using a few things a lot, and I mean a lot.
He uses
I
And
So
you
If
The
His
Her
Was
There
in
man
had
he
why
for
and of course "Blabluablablablahllalabala"
If you ask me him repeating all these words is just damned annoying!

#27 Beezulbubba

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 03:01 PM

He uses "coruscating" a lot in his writing.

Also, characters say "Beru fend" and "Hood take <me, us>" a lot.

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 03:51 PM

Beezulbubba, on 07 June 2010 - 03:01 PM, said:

He uses "coruscating" a lot in his writing.

Also, characters say "Beru fend" and "Hood take <me, us>" a lot.

No less than people say 'Oh god' or 'Jesus Christ' or 'Holy Shit' in real life.

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 07:06 PM

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 08:13 PM

Flagstones. But that's probably because English isn't my native language and I didn't know the word yet.

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 03:26 AM

Aptorian, on 18 April 2008 - 07:37 PM, said:

the term "shaved knuckle" refers to the Malazans bonegames. I'm guessing a shaved knuckle is carved in such a way that it always lands in a prefered way. Thus, by cheating, the game is won.

I agree; as I see it malazans play knucklebones like medieval troops played dice so "shaved knuckle" is the equivalent of the "loaded die".

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 06:23 AM

Or it could refer simply to dices. After all dices once were made with the knuckles of animals.

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 10:17 AM

Dies (plural of dice, which is singular) arose from knuckle bones.

Coruscating is a great word. I have to stop myself using it too often in my own writing.

Am waiting for him to use 'sabulous', as in Donaldon's "sabulous breasts". It doesn't mean what you think it means

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 03:52 PM

The word I always notice is turgid. It's not like he uses it every other page, but it comes up a number of times throughout each book.

In Dust of Dreams, he also likes to use fuck a lot more. I think I saw fuck more in that book than all of his other books combined. Not that I'm complaining, it's just weird going from seeing the word a few times in the book to every few pages.

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 03:54 PM

Dictionary.com said:

dice [dahys] plural noun, singular die

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 09 June 2010 - 04:15 AM

jitsukerr, on 08 June 2010 - 10:17 AM, said:

Am waiting for him to use 'sabulous', as in Donaldon's "sabulous breasts". It doesn't mean what you think it means

I'm waiting for a "mammose woman" to be featured.

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Posted 10 June 2010 - 02:59 PM

POTSHERDS!

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Posted 10 June 2010 - 10:16 PM

If you have ever played Diablo 2 then you know why there are potshards all over the place its because adventurers and graverobber wander through smashing everything to see if there is loot inside.

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 02:11 AM

ha ha ha.... standard in most action games.... smash pottery = receive health, mana, <gas for other attribute here>

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 08:54 AM

that and stealing everything that ain't nailed down. WANTED FOR LARCENY: Link

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